[uf-discuss] Re: Profile-examples

[Tantek Ç elik]

Brian's suggestion is a good one, user-profiles.

Chris, consider solving the specific problem (principle #1) of user-profiles
rather than expanding it to include groups.

In addition, I very much recommend figuring out ways to just stick with
hCard to represent aspects of the profile, rather than developing a new
format.

Experience has shown that previous attempts at creating "user profile"
formats grow a bit out of control which doesn't benefit anyone (publisher,
developer, consumer, user) etc.

Tantek


On 9/4/06 1:33 PM, "David Janes" <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:

> How about "public-profiles"?
> 
> Regards, etc...
> David
> 
> On 9/4/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While I take your point that profiles vs xmdp profiles I confusing,
>> the notion of a profile can also apply to groups or teams... So
>> user-profiles would be too specific.
>> 
>> Perhaps we should do more research and see if this effort requires two
>> separate formats for groups and individuals.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> On 9/4/06, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To avoid confusion with XMDP profiles, we should choose a more
>>> specific name, such as user-profile-examples, or user-bio-examples,
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> -brian
>>> 
>>> On 9/3/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> A long time ago we discussed the need for a user-profile microformat.
>>>> Clearly this would be a superset of hcard as well as an amalgamation
>>>> of other microformats, but I thought I'd throw up a page so that we
>>>> could start collecting data and practices:
>>>> 
>>>> http://microformats.org/wiki/profile-examples
>>>> 
>>>> This follows an email thread from January that hasn't, to my
>>>> knowledge, been picked up on:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-January/00268
>>> 5.html
>>>> 
>>>> Please let me know if anyone's interested. This work will directly
>>>> effect a social networking platform that a client of mine is currently
>>>> working on. They've already implemented hcard and xfn and now want to
>>>> mark up the rest of a user's profile page and need guidance.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
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